“Deepest of all in her personality was the golden radiance that she diffused around her. As an open fire in a dark… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He seduces her because she is slipping away - she lets herself be seduced because of overwhelming admiration. Once settled, it is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“But Amory, being on the spot, leaned over quickly and kissed Myra’s cheek. He had never kissed a girl before, and he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“What must love itself in its fullness, its perfection be. He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Daddy's girl. Was it a 'itty-bitty bravekins and did it suffer? Oooooo-tweet, de tweetest thing, wasn't she dest too tweet? Before her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Suddenly he was inside the radius of her perfume and kissing her breathlessly.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two years in Minneapolis - these… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He cared only about people; he was scarcely conscious of places except for their weather, until they had been invested with color… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Her beauty was cool as this damp breeze, as the moist softness of her own lips.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“[About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bight and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image